CHANGARRITO

Call for Artists Call for Changarrito Artists 2016 Glasstire / Texas Visual Art Contact Information Contact Rebecca  Location : Austin  Visit Website More Information True to the Mexic-Arte Museum's mission, the Changarrito is dedicated to the presentation and promotion of contemporary Mexican, Latina/o, and Latin American Art. Artists will have the opportunity to sell their art on the Changarrito cart right in front of the museum or an offsite location while keeping 100% of sales. Additionally, the museum always buys a work of art to acquire for its permanent collection. The time commitment would be four days over two weekends, Saturday and Sunday 12--3pm. About Changarrito Changarrito is an art vending cart, conceptualized by artist Maximo Gonzalez as an alternative to the official gallery selection presented by the Mexican cultural authorities. Faithful to their original, informal spirit, Changarritos exist throughout the world, evolving as forums for the

Changarrito  with Andrew Anderson at the  East Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX 916 Springdale Rd, Austin  Organized by  Mexic-Arte Museum November 14th,  15th,  21st,  22nd, 2015  Andrew Anderson was born in Mexico City from an American father and a Panamanian mother. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting from The University of Texas and has since established himself as a promising and practicing artist in Austin. Anderson utilizes a reductive aesthetic in his art. His fields of colors, while often formally creating multiple depths or planes, are the fundamental terms of his philosophy. These terms provide the platform for his visual language, not incomparable to a tabula rasa. The palette is not blank though; the platform consists  of pure color where external noise has been erased from the language. What is left, this language of color? Blocks, chunks, merely matter undressed for the innate mind to interpret intuitively. This philosophy is the necessary ach